I got up this am to my third cold shower at the Buddy Lodge and thought.. this is probably how it was going to go. Liz/Marty Sheila and I met for breakfast and quickly negotiated a cab to the Weekend Market. There is nothing in the world to describe this place. It sells everything from pretty good coffee to mice. I did buy some more pants, shawls, and opium weights. Everyone should have those. We manager to stay together and not lose anyone. By about 12:45, even the shoppers were shopped. Since I was rather determined to try all the public transportation, we took the sky way as far as we could. a nice man from CA helped us get oriented to the system. I was happy I didn't lose the ticket since you need it to get out of the system. The ride was very smooth and quiet. We cabbed the rest of the way and I think several of us had our eyes closed as we raced across the city. After a beer and some short rest, the four of us took off for the river. We found a long boat that would take the four of us on a ride up and down the canals. Next to the Elephant camp, this was one of the highlights. The journey took us by all the little places that people live. With very few exceptions, every house had flowers growing in something. There were the usual dogs and when a family had a baby, they put the child up and waved its little hand toward us. There were a few boat people floating about trying to sell us beer, but we were not buying, so the boat driver quickly stopped trying to pass.
While we had had some concern about getting into the boat and some concern about racing about the river in a boat the appeared to have a few holes and no life saving devices.. it was getting out that proved my low point. I thought that if I just sat on the tire on the dock, I could just swing around.. well the boat started to move away and I ended up looking like a beached whale.. with Sheila trying to haul me in ... we laughed and laughed and I laughed so hard I did not see the naked man crawling out of the water. It was a great fun day and the second day we ate Italian. Before the boat trip, I moved my luggage to the StarDome Inn where I will be staying when I return to BK. After dinner we walked back and Sheila prepared to leave.. shower and some ice cream. She is a great woman...well lots of child in her so that is why it was so easy to have fun with her. ( Sasha.. she slept with her little penguin)... Again on the boat, she took aim to snap a photo.. and then moved to get a picture of the bottom of the boat. Great fun. We sent her to the airport at 9:30... with some other folks so she will be just fine. I am sure she will start to laugh on the way home when she thinks of all the great joy we have all had. We are getting up or rather we are leaving for Cambodia at 5:15am...so I need to get some sleep. The rest of the trip will be different without Sheila and Anne... more tomorrow from the Kingdom of Cambodia....b
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